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Advanced Materials, Composites
Karl F. Böhringer »
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Director of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems laboratory
Yasuo Kuga »
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Director of Electromagnetics and Remote Sensing Laboratory
Kuen Lin »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Co-director of Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials in Transport Aircraft Structures (AMTAS)
Lih Lin »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Director of UWEE Photonics Lab
Alex Mamishev »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Director of Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL)
Minoru Taya »
Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering
Director of Center for Intelligent Materials and Systems (CIMS)
Mark Tuttle »
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Director, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials in Transport Aircraft Structures (AMTAS)
Aerospace Manufacturing Science and Technology
Ramulu Mamidala »
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Boeing-Pennell Professor of Engineering
Director, Manufacturing Science and Technology Laboratory
Per Reinhall »
Professor and Department Chair, Mechanical Engineering
Manufacturing Science and Technology Laboratory
Aerospace Technology Innovation
Mehran Mesbahi »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Director, Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI)
Air Traffic Management
Santosh Devasia »
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Affairs, UW College of Engineering
Air Traffic Control
Mehran Mesbahi »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Director of Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI)
Zelda B. Zabinsky »
Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Air Traffic Management
Aircraft Icing
Michael B. Bragg »
Professor Emeritus, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Airplane Security
Radha Poovendran »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Network Security Lab
Autonomous Flight Systems and UAVs
Howard Chizeck »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Co-Director of UW Biorobotics Laboratory
Jenq-Neng Hwang »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Co-director of Information Processing Lab
Kristi Morgansen »
Professor and Chair, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Principal Investigator of Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Lab
Ming-Ting Sun »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Co-director of Information Processing Lab
Juris Vagners »
Professor Emeritus, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory
Biofuels
Richard Gustafson »
Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Advanced Biofuels and Co-Products from Mixed Feedstocks
Jim Hermanson »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Combustion and Gas Dynamics
John C. Kramlich »
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Combustion, Environmental emissions control, Algae-based biofuels
Combustion and Gas Dynamics
Jim Hermanson »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Co-PI, Combustion and Gas Dynamics
Communication and Electronics
Sumit Roy »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Director, Fundamentals of Networking Laboratory
Richard Shi »
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Director, Silicon Systems Research Lab
Joshua R. Smith »
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Lead, Sensor Systems research group
Fluid Dynamics and Mechanics
Robert Breidenthal »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Co-PI, Low Speed Fluid Dynamics & Aerodynamics Lab
Dana Dabiri »
Associate Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Co-PI, Low Speed Fluid Dynamics & Aerodynamics Lab
Antonino Ferrante »
Assistant Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
PI, Computational Fluid Mechanics Lab
Nondestructive Damage Detection, Fluorescent Probes
Alex Jen »
Emeritus Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
PI, Jen Research Group
Robotics, Aerospace and Information Networks
Mehran Mesbahi »
Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Director of Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI)